Определение loose в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game
The puck was momentarily loose right in front of the net.
- The release of an arrow
- Not fitting closely
I wear loose clothes when it is hot.
- To unfasten, to loosen
- A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment
- Not held or packaged together
You can buy apples in a pack, but they are cheaper loose.
- Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste
In all these he was much and deeply read; / But not a page of any thing that 's loose, / Or hints continuation of the species, / Was ever suffer'd, lest he should grow vicious.
- Relaxed
She danced with a loose flowing movement.
- Not compact
It is difficult walking on loose gravel.
- to shoot (an arrow)
- begin shooting; release your arrows
- Common misspelling of lose
I'm going to loose this game.
- Not under control
The dog is loose again.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly
This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel.
- To let loose, to free from restraints
- Of a grip or hold, to let go
- Indiscreet
Loose talk costs lives.
- To make less tight, to loosen
- {a} unbounded, lax, wild, wanton
- {n} liberty
- {v} to unbind, deliver, free, set free, set sail
- Not tight or close; as, a loose garment
- without restraint; "cows in India are running loose
- not bound or fastened or gathered together; "loose pages"; "loose papers"
- Something that is loose is not firmly held or fixed in place. If a tooth feels very loose, your dentist may recommend that it's taken out Two wooden beams had come loose from the ceiling She idly pulled at a loose thread on her skirt. + loosely loose·ly Tim clasped his hands together and held them loosely in front of his belly
- A loose grouping, arrangement, or organization is flexible rather than strictly controlled or organized. Murray and Alison came to some sort of loose arrangement before he went home He wants a loose coalition of leftwing forces. + loosely loose·ly The investigation had aimed at a loosely organised group of criminals
- As in: "The kart is loose" Another name for oversteer
- make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope"
- a loose cannon: see cannon all hell breaks loose: see hell
- Free; not held, tied up or fastened
- A term used to describe product that is no longer in its original packaging
- If your hair is loose, it hangs freely round your shoulders and is not tied back. She was still in her nightdress, with her hair hanging loose over her shoulders
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"
- turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"
- Lax; not costive; having lax bowels
- Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right
- Freedom from restraint
- Without packing
- not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope"
- To solve; to interpret
- A letting go; discharge
- Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture
- {s} free; released; untied; disconnected; slack; weak; not tight; unrestrained; wanton; careless; imprecise; not defined
- Term to describe a condition in which the car's front tires have more traction than the rear, causing the rear of the car to point toward the outside and the front to point to the inside Also called "oversteer "
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"
- Stock car drivers say a car is loose if on the turns, the rear end heads toward the wall Open-wheel drivers would say the car is oversteering A loose car is faster than a tight car
- A condition where the front tires have more traction than the rear tires This produces the effect where the rear of a racecar wants to exchange positions with the front of the racecar, or the rear end wants to go towards the outer wall This condition is also known as "Oversteer" and may be hard to control A car that is loose is faster than a car that is tight
- Basically, a handling condition describing the tendency of a car's rear wheels to break away from the pavement, swinging its rear end toward the outside wall Also called "oversteer"
- Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle
- Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book
- Not bound or tethered or leashed
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave"
- Slang: freewheeling; unfettered; tending to overbid or to bid dangerously
- the text block is coming loose from the binding at the hinges
- in a loose manner
- with from or of
- Something that is loose is not attached to anything, or held or contained in anything. Frank emptied a handful of loose change on the table A page came loose and floated onto the tiles
- Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman
- If something is loose in texture, there is space between the different particles or threads it consists of. She gathered loose soil and let it filter slowly through her fingers
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose"
- To relax; to loosen; to make less strict
- To let go of the bowstring at full draw, ideally by relaxation of the fingers holding the bow string
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel"
- not affixed; "the stamp came loose"
- not restrained or confined or attached; "a pocket full of loose bills"; "knocked the ball loose"; "got loose from his attacker"
- A player who plays many hands
- To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball"
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning
- A car is loose when the rear is unstable because of improper rear tire grip Also known as oversteer MARBLES: Small pieces of tire rubber that build up above the racing groove
- loose ablative
- A syntactic construction which uses the past participle, inflected in the ablative case, without an auxiliary verb yet not as an adjective, but silently supposing a verb to depend upon
- loose ball
- A ball that neither team has possession of, and hence can challenge for
- loose box
- A separate compartment of a building in which livestock are free to move about; especially a form of stable for horses
- loose cannon
- an uncontrolled or unpredictable person who causes damage to his own faction, political party etc
Mitt Romney is considered a loose cannon in the Republican Party due to his support for government spending increases, global regulatory agencies, and universal health insurance mandates.
- loose cannon
- a cannon that breaks loose during battle or a storm and causes serious damage to the ship and its crew
- loose change
- A sum of money considered small or insignificant
- loose change
- Coins of little value kept in one's pocket or bag
- loose coupling
- A lowly interdependent coupling between program modules
- loose end
- A small job that needs to be done, or minor problem that needs to be resolved, before a task can be considered complete
- loose end
- The end of a rope that has not been fastened
- loose ends
- Leftover items that have not been addressed or attended to
I would have liked to stay later and tie up some of the loose ends.
- loose scrum
- Ruck
- loose woman
- A sexually promiscuous woman; a prostitute
- loose-box
- Alternative spelling of loose box
- loose-fitting
- baggy, not tight
- loose-leaf
- Having pages that are not attached and are designed to be removed
All the pages fell out of my loose-leaf notebook.
- loose-meat sandwich
- a type of sandwich with a filling of loose ground beef
- loose-tongued
- garrulous, gossipy
- loose cigarette
- A loose cigarette or "loosie" is a single cigarette purchased at the store
- loose typing
- (Bilgisayar) In computer science, weak typing (a.k.a. loose typing) is a property attributed to the type systems of some programming languages. It is the opposite of strong typing, and consequently the term weak typing has as many different meanings as strong typing does
- loose behavior
- reckless behavior, indulgence of one's urges
- loose bowels
- diarrhea, liquid feces, "runs
- loose box
- {i} (British) large enclosed stall within a building for keeping a farm animal without a tether
- loose cannon
- {i} (Slang) person who is uncontrolled in a dangerous manner
- loose cannon
- a person who is expected to perform a particular task but who is out of control and dangerous
- loose cannon
- One that is uncontrolled and therefore poses danger
- loose end
- work that is left incomplete
- loose end
- If you are at a loose end, you are bored because you do not have anything to do and cannot think of anything that you want to do. In American English, you usually say that you are at loose ends. Adolescents are most likely to get into trouble when they're at a loose end. A minor unresolved problem or difficulty, especially a final detail preceding the completion of something. Often used in the plural
- loose end
- A loose end is part of a story, situation, or crime that has not yet been explained. There are some annoying loose ends in the plot
- loose leaf
- {s} having single sheets of paper that can be removed (of binders and notebooks)
- loose life
- life of promiscuity, wanton lifestyle
- loose liver
- {i} one who lives a wanton lifestyle
- loose living
- living promiscuously, living a wanton lifestyle
- loose morals
- liberal ethics, morals which are not generally acceptable
- loose nuke
- nuclear weapon or weapon making material that has been smuggled out of the former Soviet Union (Politics)
- loose off
- fire as from a gun; "The soldiers let drive their bullets"
- loose off
- fire as from a gun; "The soldiers let drive their bullets
- loose one's bearings
- lose one's way, get lost; lose track of one's thoughts
- loose one's hand
- lose a skill, lose expertise, lose proficiency
- loose sentence
- a complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows
- loose silver
- silver coins, small pieces of silver money
- loose smut
- a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores
- loose smut
- disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores
- loose smut
- a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores
- loose the battle but win the war
- have the last laugh; be successful in the end
- loose tongue
- chatterbox, overly talkative
- loose trousers
- protective trousers
- loose-fitting
- not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
- loose-fitting
- Loose-fitting clothes are rather large and do not fit tightly on your body. loose-fitting clothes are big and do not fit your body closely, so that they are comfortable = baggy tight-fitting, tight tight
- loose-jointed
- loosely articulated or constructed; "a loose-jointed paragraph"
- loose-jointed
- loosely articulated or constructed; "a loose-jointed paragraph
- loose-leaf
- having pages that can be put in and removed easily loose-leaf file/binder/format
- all hell breaks loose
- The situation becomes chaotic or characterized by conflict or rage
- all hell broke loose
- A great disaster happened or chaos ensued
When the fire alarm went off, all hell broke loose as the crowd made for the exits.
- at loose ends
- in an uncertain position or situation
I am really at loose ends about this choice, I am between the proverbial rock and hard place.
- break loose
- to escape, to free oneself
- breaking loose
- Present participle of break loose
- breaks loose
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of break loose
- broke loose
- Simple past of break loose
- broken loose
- Past participle of break loose
- cut one loose
- to fart
- give a loose
- To give vent (to), to let loose (unrestrained feelings, emotions etc.)
There I began to breathe a little freer, and to give a loose to those warm emotions which the sight of such an encounter had raised in me.
- hang-loose sign
- The shaka, a gesture made with a fist with the thumb and little finger extended
- have a screw loose
- To be insane or irrational
I think old Mr. Jacobs has a screw loose; he keeps trying to feed his cats bird seed.
- let loose
- to free, release from restraint
- lets loose
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of let loose
- letting loose
- Present participle of let loose
- loosely
- Not tightly
Insert all the bolts loosely, then tighten them.
- loosely
- Approximately
It's red, to use the term loosely, sort of brown and sort of orange, let's call it reddish.
- looseness
- The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut
See if that nut has too much looseness and tighten it if it does.
- looseness
- A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy
- looseness
- Moral laxity; licentiousness
Yet goodly court he made still to his Dame, / Pourd out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd .
- looser
- Comparative form of loose: more loose
You should make this garment looser.
- looser
- Common misspelling of loser
- on the loose
- Not incarcerated or in captivity; not under control
There were reports of a giraffe that escaped from the zoo, on the loose in New York.
- play fast and loose
- To ignore proper behavior or social conventions, especially when it suits ones purpose
I cannot say that the there were any outright lies in the editorial, but it does play fast and loose with the truth.
- play fast and loose
- To be recklessly inaccurate, inappropriate, or otherwise ignoring guidelines and conventions
- tie up loose ends
- To deal with the minor consequences of a previous action; to tidy up, finish, or complete
Removing her name from the mailing list was her way of tying up loose ends.
- turn loose
- To release or let go; to permit (someone or something) to roam freely or to act freely
He's so creative, and I'd love to turn him loose in my garden sometime and see what he dreams up.
- turned loose
- Simple past tense and past participle of turn loose
- turning loose
- Present participle of turn loose
- turns loose
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of turn loose
- hang loose
- relax, be at ease; wait patiently; take it easy (Informal)
- loosely
- {a} in a loose manner, idly, wantonly
- looseness
- {n} a laxness of body, flux, depravity
- all hell breaks loose
- (deyim) Suddenly there is pandemonium
- all hell is let loose
- (deyim) If all hell is let loose, a situation suddenly becomes violent and noisy, especially with people arguing or fighting
One policeman drew his gun and then suddenly all hell is let loose.
- cut loose
- (deyim) to free from control or restraint (cut us loose from the contract)
- tie up loose ends
- (Tekstil) Finish a project, complete the details of some work, finishing touch. "Have you finished the survey? - Just about. I have to tie up some loose ends and print the report."
- turn loose
- a.) set free "turned loose the captured animal" b.) free from all restraints "turned them loose with a pile of theme paper to write whatever they liked."
- turn somebody loose
- to give up control of someone or something, so they can do what they want
- loos
- Praise; fame; reputation
- loos
- plural of
- loos
- Austrian architect (1870-1933)
- loosed
- past of loose
- loosely
- In a loose manner
- loosely
- knitted in a loose manner; "loosely knit"
- loosely
- in a loose manner; "a union of loosely federated states"
- loosely
- in a loose manner; in a relaxed manner; freely; broadly, generally; immorally; in an unrestrained manner
- loosely
- knitted in a loose manner; "loosely knit" in a relaxed manner; not rigid; "his hands lay loosely" in a loose manner; "a union of loosely federated states
- loosely
- without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly"
- loosely
- in a loose manner; "a union of loosely federated states
- loosely
- in a relaxed manner; not rigid; "his hands lay loosely"
- looseness
- movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel"
- looseness
- The property of being loose
- looseness
- {i} state of being loose; absence of rigidity or strictness; slackness, laxity
- looseness
- movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel
- looseness
- The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles
- looser
- form of loose
- loosing
- present participle of loose